Apparatus for applying labels to fabrics at measured distances apart.



R. H. ANDERSON.

BELS T0, FABRICS AT MEASURED DISTANCES APART. APPLICATION FILED APR. 12, 1913.

ATPA ATUS FOR APPLYING LA 1,09%556, Patented Apr. 7, 1914 ROBERT HUTCHISO-N ANDERSON, 0F POOL, NEAR LEEDS, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE WILANPORT COMPANY LIMITED, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FQR APPLYING LABELS '10 FABRICS AT MEASURED DISTANCES APART.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. ":1, an.

Application filed April 12, 1913. Serial No. 760,573.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT HUTGHISON ANDERSON, engineer, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at ,Swiss Villa} Pool, near Leeds, in the county of York, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Ape plying. Labels to Fabrics at Measured Distances Apart, and of which the following is a specification.

Apparatus is already known in which fabric is passed around a measuring drum, and a measuring label aflixed to the said fabric at each revolution of the drum by the application of moisture to adhesive coated surfaces of said labels, which operation has been carried out by means located exterior of the said drum. Such drums have been rotated by a forward pull imparted to the fabric by any suitable means or by directly driving the drum by gearing. Such known apparatus is however unsatisfactory in practice, owing not only to the difficulty experienced in efficiently afiixing the labels, but also to the complications caused by the employment of a liquid and the consequent necessity of mounting the moistening apparatus in a stationary manner.

Now the present invention refers to an apparatus of the type above referred to, but in which the labels are aflixed to the fabric by the said labels being coated on the back with any well known dry adhesive substance which will melt under the action of heat and which will cause the labels to firmly adhere to the fabric when such heat is combined with pressure; whereby we are enabled to' construct a measuring and labeling drum hollow measuring drum containing within it the means whereby continuous strip of labels is intermittently fed from a roll, the,

leading label of the strip being received by a carrier device, cut off by a mechanically op.- erated knife, carried and held in position by the carrier device opposite an .aperture in the wall of the drum, and pressed on to the fabric by a heated plunger against a pressure plate which is brought into position on the exterior surface of the fabric, all the operating mechanism being located within cording to the present invention, and Fig. 2

is a longitudinal section taken in a plane at right angles to the plane of section of the View shown at Fig. 1, and illustrating so much of the mechanism as is necessary for the proper understanding thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the drum showing the knife operating mechanism, and from which also with the following descrip tion the arrangement of other parts of the mechanism will be understood.

1 The measuring drum 1 is hollow and it may be polygonal in cross section, and the peripheral dimensions of which are such as to constitute the required unit of measurement of length which is to be indicated upon the fabric passing around such drum. In this apparatus, as in other known apparatus of this type, the fabric passes around the periphery of the drum 1, and the latter is rotated by a forward pull imparted to and a label is to be aflixed to the fabric with the apparatus according to this invention at each revolution of the drum. The drum 1 is mounted concentrically upon a stationary shaft 2 so as to be revoluble thereon, and within the drum on a spindle 3 is carried a continuous strip of labels 4, the strip passing over a guide pulley 5 carried on a spindie 6 and over a feed roller 7 freely mounted on a shaft 8 carried Within the drum. The strip of labels may be notched at their edges to receive teeth 9 on the feed roller 7 to maintain the register of the labels. The strip of labels passes through a guide channel 10. The feed roller 7 is operated by a cam 11 fixed on the shaft 2 which as the drum 1 revolves acts ona roller carried by a lever 12 which is pivoted in a similar manner to a bracket in the drum as is the lever 27, Fig. 3, hereafter mentioned when dei scribing the cutting apparatus, and the roller is held on to the cam 11 by a spring such as 31, Fig. 3. The connecting rod 13,

Fig. 1, connects the lever 12 with a pawlcarrying arm 14 freely mounted on the a spring such as previously described with a cam fixed to the shaft 2. The shank of. the carrier 15 is rocked by and is capable of sliding through one arm of a lever 21 pivoted to framework within the drum and operated through a. connecting rod by a lever 22 carrying a roller held by a spring such as previously described in contact with a cam 23 fixed on the shaft 2-.

When the leading label has been impaled by the pins of'the carrier 15 and is suflieiently' advanced, the knife 24 is carried up into conjunction with a blade 25, fixed on the interior of the drum, and severs the leading label from the strip. The knife 24, see

, in, and returnin Fig. 3, is pivoted at 25? and connected b a connecting rod 26 with a lever 27, ul-

crumed to a bracket 28 on the interior of the drum, and having a roller 29 bearing on a cam 30 fixed to the shaft 2 of the machine, the lever 27 being .held with its roller 29 in contact with the cam'30 by a spring 31.

The plunger32is located within the drum opposite the aperture 33 in the wall thereof, and is carried by a rod 34 capable of sliding in a stationary frame within'the drum, and slid at proper times by a lever 35, operated through a connectingrod from a lever 36 controlled by a spring and pivoted as with the operatin levers previously described, the lever- 36 eing actuated by a cam 37 .on the shaft 2. v

The pressure plunger 32 is heated by an electric current conveyed to it from a brush 38, which receives a. current of electricity from any suitable source, and which is carrled on a stationary framework 39, the current passing through a conductor 40 and the flex ble connection to the plunger passing through a suitable electric resistance thereby a conductor 41 to a brush 42. .The eated lunger 32 is then reciprocated radially o the drum 1 at proper times passing between the forked members of the carrier 15 to press the label held thereby on to the fabricr The pressure plate 43 is carried exteriorly of the drum 1 upon a bent arm 44 pivoted to one end of a slide rod 45,-ca able of sliding in a downward direction re atively to Fig. 1 in abore in the framework in the interior of the drum 1, the slide rod being retained in the osition shown normally by a spring 46. T e bent arm 44 is operated by a fulcrumed two-armed lever 47 through the medium of a connecting rod 48, operated ,by a lever 49 carrying a roller held,in contact with a cam 50 fixed on the shaft 2 by a spring such as is shown at 31', Fig. 3.

The operation is as followsz'The'drum l revolves as the fabric is drawn around it, the strip of labels is fed forward in the channel 10 and the leading label is then imaled on the pins ofthe carrier 15 by the atter being slid radially outward. The knife 24 is then turned about its fulcrum 25 and cuts off the label held by the carrier 15 from the strip. The carrier lever 21 is then rocked, and the label carried opposite to the delivery aperture 33 of; the drum 1, the forked members of the carrier 15 passing on each side of the heated plunger 32. The bent arm 44 is 'then operatedand brings the pressure plate 43 above the fabric, and immediately the heated plunger 32 rises between the fork of the carrier 15 and presses the label held by the carrier on to the fabric, it *being securely attached thereto by the melting of the dry adhesive under the heat and pressure applied.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In apparatus for applying .labels to fabrics at measured distances apart; the combination with a stationary shaft, a hollow measuring drum mounted freely thereon to be revolved by gearing or by the fabric to be labeled passin over same, said drum having an aperture or the delivery of labels,

a continuous strip of labels coated on one side facing the interior surface of the drum with adry adhesive calculated to melt under the action of heat, and means located within said drum to intermittently feed said labelstrip toward said delivery aperture in said drum; of a label carrier within said drum to seize the leading label, means within the drum foroperating said carrier, means within said drum to sever said leadin label from said strip, a plunger, within sai drum, and means therein to move said plunger into contact with said label to press it against the fabric passing-over the exterior ofthe drum, means forheating said plunger, a pressure plate located exterior of the drum, and

means within said drum for moving said' pressure plate above said fabric and over said delivery aperture to-resist the pressure of said plunger. I

2. In apparatus for. applying labels to fabrics at measured distances apart; the combination ,with 'a stationary shaft, a hollow'measuring drum mounted freely there-.

.on to be revolved by gearing orx'by the fabric to be labeled passing over same, said drum having an aperture for-the delivery on one side facing the interior surface of \said drum with a dry adhesive substance calof labels, a continuous strip of labels coated culated to melt under the action of heat, a guide channel in said drum to guide said label-strip. toward said delivery aperture, and means located within said drum to intermittently feed said label-strip through said guide channel; of a label carrier within said drum to seize the leading label projecting from said guide channel, means Within the drum for operating said carrier, means within said drum to sever said leading label from said strip, a plunger within said drum, and means therein to move said plunger into contact with said label to press it against the fabric passing over the exterior of thedrum, means for heating said plunger, a pressure plate located exterior of the drum, and means within said drum for moving said pressure plate above said fabric and dver said delivery aperture to resist the pressure of said plunger.

3. In apparatus for applying labels to fabrics at measured distances apart; the combinationwith a stationary shaft, a hollow measuring drum mounted freely thereon to be revolved by gearing or by the fabric to be labeled passing over same, said drum having an aperture for the delivery of la bels, a continuous strip of labels coated on one side facing the interior surface of said drum with a dry adhesive substance calculated to melt under the action of heat, a guide channel in said drum to guide said label-strip toward said delivery aperture, and means located within said drum and operated by the revolution thereof to intermittently feed said label-strip through said guide channel; a label carrier within said drum to seize the leading label projecting from said guide channel, and means within the drum and operated by its revolution for operating said carrier, means located within said drum and operated by its revolution to sever said leading label from said'strip, a plunger within said drum, and means within said drum and operated by its revolution to move said plunger-into cont-act with said label to press it against the fabric passing over the exterior of the drum, means for heating said plunger to enable the latter to melt said adhesive on said label, a pressure plate carried exterior of the drum, and means within said drum and operated by its revolution for moving said pressure plate above said fabric and ,over said delivery aperture to resist the pressure of said plunger.

4. In apparatus'fo-r applying labels to fabrics at measured distances apart; the combination with a stationary shaft, a hollow measuring drum freely mounted on said shaft and revolved thereon by gearing or by the'fabric assing over same to be labeled at measured istances, said drum having an aperture for the delivery of the labels, a continuous strip of labels within the drum coated on )its outer surface with a dry adhesive substance calculated to melt under movable knife within said drum located on one side of. said label-strip, an opposed blade fixed on said drum on the other side of said label-strip, means for moving said knife into contact with said blade to sever the leading label held by said label carrier, means for moving said label carrier to bring said label carried thereby opposite said delivery aperture, a plunger located opposite said delivery aperture within said drum, means to move said plunger into contact with said label to press it against the fabric passing over the exterior of said drum, means for heating said plunger to enable the latter to melt said adhesive on said label, a pressure plate carried exterior of said drum, and means for moving said pressure plate above said fabric and over said delivery aperture in said drum to resist the pressure of said plunger.

5. In apparatus for applyinglabels to fabrics at measured distances apart; the combination with a stationary shaft, a hollow measuring drum revoluble upon said shaft and around which drum the fabric is traversed to be labeled at measured distances, said drum having an aperture for the delivery of the labels, a spindle in the interior of said drum, a continuous strip of labels carried by said spindle, said labelstrip being coated on its outer surface with a dry adhesive substance calculated to melt under the action of heat, a feed roller in said drum over which said label-strip passes, a cam fixed on the drum shaft, means operated through said cam to communicate 'intermittent angular motion to said feed roller to feed said label-strip, and a uide channel in said drum to guide sai label-strip toward said delivery aperture; of a forked carrier within said drum and pins on said fork ends,means for radially advancingsaid carrier to impale the leading label on said pins, a knife within said drum located on one side of said label-strip, a pivot connectingsaid knife to said drum, an opposed blade fixed on said drum on the other side of said label-strip, a cam fixed on said drum rock said knife to sever the label carried by said carrier, means for rocklngsaid carrier to bring said label carried thereby opposite to said delivery aperture, a plunger located opposite said delivery aperture within said drum, a slide rod to carry said plunger, a

radial stationary guide frame in said drum shaft, means operated through said cam to to carry said slide rod, a cam fixed on said drum shaft within said drum, means operated through said cam to reciprocate said slide rod to bring said plunger into contact with said label to press it against the fabric passing over the exterior of said drum, means for heating said plunger, a pressure plate carried exteriorly of said drum, a bent through said cam to rock said pressure plate above said fabric and over said'dehvery a erture in said drum to resist the pressure 0 said plunger:

In witness. whereof I have hereunto se t my hand-in the presence of two Witnesses.

1101mm nu'rcmsor irnrnsor.

Witnesses:

J 011 J owm'iy VANCE EWABT GALLOWAY. 

